Mr. Chair, in terms of trade diversification, the government has no policy of trade diversification away from China. We would like to grow our trade with China.
As we've heard from many of the questions, there members have concerns about how we increase our canola trade, how we increase our trade in forest products and how we increase our trade in all ranges of commodities and products and services. Our policy is to try to increase that trade. By so doing, our trade will be diversified.
As for individual companies, when we talk to them from a trade commissioner service perspective and we look at their global strategy, we encourage diversification as a general principle for them, because the data is very clear that companies that are more diversified in their trade are more successful. They pay better wages. They grow faster. They are less like to fail in a downturn.
A company with very diversified sets of markets does much better. One goal of our policy and our efforts is to help companies reap those benefits of diversification by helping them to do that in whichever market they are interested.